Matilda Mroz is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema (2020, Palgrave MacMillan) and Temporality and Film Analysis (2012, EUP). She is co-editor of The Cinematic Bodies of Eastern Europe and Russia (2016, EUP), Remembering Katyń (2012, Polity Press) and Elemental World Cinemas (2025, Brill).

• Introduction Duration and Rhythm Resonance and Uncertainty Affect Sense and Texture L’Avventura, Mirror, Decalogue 1 Time, in Theory Moments in Film Theory Sensory and Affective MomentsMoments and Duration2 L’Avventura: Temporal Adventures Depth and MovementLooking and ImagingTemporalised SpacePace and RhythmL’Avventura Today 3 Mirror: Trace and Transfiguration Time and the Long-TakeMemory and Narration Reflections on the CameraTexture and the Senses Aesthetic Transfiguration AudiophiliaMirrors and Crystals4 Signs and Meaning in the DecalogueSignificance: Omens, Objects and PatternsTemporality, narrative, and affect EpilogueBibliography Index